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Etymology
black (“color of iron”) + smith (“related to smite”)
Pronunciation
Noun
blacksmith (plural blacksmiths)
- A person who forges iron.
- Howell
- The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
- (informal) A person who shoes horses; a farrier.
- A blackish fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis or Heliastes punctipinnis).
Usage notes
Historically, blacksmiths in small communities have played a number of other roles, including farrier, wainwright and wheelwright. However, blacksmithing properly refers to the forging of iron, and blacksmiths and farriers themselves make the distinction.
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Translations
iron forger
- Albanian: farkëtar (sq)
- Arabic: حدّاد (ar) (ḥaddār) m
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: դարբին (hy) (darbin)
- Aromanian: hirar (rup) m, favru (rup) m, favur (rup) m
- Asturian: ferreru (ast) m
- Azeri: dəmirçi (az)
- Belarusian: каваль (be) (kaválʹ) m
- Bengali: কামার (bn) (kamar)
- Breton: gov (br) m
- Bulgarian: ковач (bg) (kovač) m
- Burmese: ပန်းပဲသမား (my) (băbè:dhăma:)
- Catalan: ferrer (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鐵匠 (cmn), 铁匠 (cmn) (tiējiàng)
- Czech: kovář (cs) m
- Dalmatian: favro m
- Danish: smed (da) c
- Dutch: smid (nl) m
- Esperanto: forĝisto (eo)
- Estonian: sepp (et)
- Faroese: jarnsmiður (fo) m, smiður (fo) m
- Finnish: seppä (fi)
- French: forgeron (fr) m, forgeronne (fr) f, sidérurgiste (fr) m and f
- Friulian: fari m
- Galician: ferreiro (gl) m
- Georgian: მჭედელი (ka) (mčedeli)
- German: Schmied (de) m, Schmiedin (de) f, Grobschmied (de) m, Grobschmiedin (de) f
- Greek: σιδεράς (el) (siðerás) m, σιδηρουργός (el) (siðirurγós) m
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hindi: लोहार (hi) (lohār)
- Hungarian: kovács (hu)
- Icelandic: járnsmiður (is)
- Indonesian: pandai besi (id), tukang besi (id)
- Irish: gabha (ga) m, gabha dubh (ga) m
- Italian: fabbro ferraio (it) m
- Japanese: 鍛冶屋 (ja) (かじや, kajiya)
- Jèrriais: forgeux m
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: ұста (kk) (usta)
- Khmer: ជាងដែក (km) (cieng daek)
- Korean: 대장장이 (ko) (daejangjangi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئاسنگهر (ku) (asinger)
- Kyrgyz: темирчи (ky) (temirçi)
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- Korean: 대장장이 (ko) (daejangjangi)
- Latin: faber ferricus (la)
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